AP - Spring
 

SECOND SEMESTER  - IN THE PROCESS OF UPDATING!

 

PART FIVE: Struggling for Justice at Home and Abroad - 1901-1945

Sub-Unit: The Road To War

 

1/5-1/12           Ch. 28 Progressivism and Republican Roosevelt, 1901-1912                                 

                                              •Progressivism                           •William Howard Taft

                                              •Social Injustice                         •Muller v. Oregon – 1908

 

PowerPoint – Lecture

Discussion Questions

Free Response Essay

 

1/12-1/19            Ch.29 Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and Abroad, 1912-1916

•Election of1912             •War in Europe

•Latin America                           •Woodrow Wilson

 

Discussion Questions: Wilson on the brink of war with Germany, events that lead up to the U.S. involvement, and compare and contrast policies in Latin America under Roosevelt and Wilson.

PowerPoint: Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and Abroad

Lecture and Discussion Questions (Wilson & WWI)

Video: America Enters the War

 

1/19-1/26            Ch.30 The War to End War, 1917-1918

                                                •America goes to War                •Fourteen Points

•The League of Nations               •Workers on the Home Front

 

Discussion Questions: Wilson’s war aims and his fourteen points, negotiations at the Paris Peace Conference, and the League of Nations 

 

 

1/26-2/2           Ch. 31 American Life in the "Roaring Twenties", 1919-1929

•The "Red Scare"                       •Immigration restrictions

•Prohibition and Gangsterism      •The Automobile Age

•Jazz Age culture, music, and literature

 

Discussion Questions: The social “turning inward” of the 1920s, the rise of the KKK, and the role of prohibition and the rise of organized crime.

PowerPoint (lecture): After the Great War and the 1920s

The Immigration Restriction Law (1973 DBQ)

Multiple Choice Test (Chapters 29, 30, & 31)

 

2/2-2/9           Ch. 32 The Politics of Boom and Bust, 1920-1932

                                                •The Republicans return to Power, 1921

•Disarmament and Isolation         •Harding Scandals

•The Great Crash, 1929                 •Hoover and the Great Depression

•Aggression in Asia

 

Discussion Questions: The causes of the Great Depression. How did President Hoover try to help the nation during this time of crisis?

 

2/9-2/16            Ch. 33 The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1933-1939

                                               •Franklin D. Roosevelt as President                    

                                               •The Hundred Days Congress     •Relief, Reform, & Recovery

                                               •"Alphabet Agencies”                  •The Election of 1936

 

PowerPoint (Lecture): Depression to War

Great American Speeches: Volume I:

            FDR’s First Inaugural Address, 1933

Video: MANDATE: The President and the People

            Part III: President Franklin D. Roosevelt and The New Deal

Between World Wars: FDR and the Age of Isolationism (CHOICES)

     Part I: After the Great War (1918-1935)

Advanced Study Guide I

Activity: Great Depression –Photographs – Students are required to analyze five photographs and share their findings with the class.    

FDR’s Fireside Chat, September 6, 1936 – What was the importance of the fireside chats?

Free Response Essay 

 

2/16-2/23           Ch. 34 Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shadow of War,1933-1941

                                    •German and Japanese Aggression

•Neutrality Acts, 1935-1939

•Isolation and appeasement       

•Lend-Lease Act and the Atlantic Charter

 

Between World Wars: FDR and the Age of Isolationism (CHOICES)

     Part II: “Isolationism” and Franklin Roosevelt (1935-1941)

Advanced Study Guide II

                                                                Epilogue: The Legacies of FDR and Isolationism

                                                    Great American Speeches: Volume I

                                                    FDR – Declaration of War, 1941

 

2/23-3/2           Ch.35 America in World WarII, 1941-1945

                                               •Internment of Japanese Americans

•Women in wartime

•"D-Day" in Normandy, June 6, 1944

•Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki – 1945

 

PowerPoint (lecture) and discussion regarding the Atomic Bomb

Did the United States have any other choice? Was the dropping of the bomb inevitable, and why?

The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb (1988 DBQ)

Video: Duck and Cover

 

PART SIX: Making Modern America- 1945 to the Present

 

3/2-3/9           Ch. 36 The Cold War Begins, 1945-1952

•Origins of the Cold War            

•The United Nations

•Communism and Containment

•The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan

 

PowerPoint (hand-out): Post War America and The Cold War

The United Nations: Challenges and Change (CHOICES)

     Part I: The UN and the International Community

Advanced Study Guide - Part I

                                                    Part II: Debating the UN’s Role

                                                   Advanced Study Guide – Part II

                                              Discussion Questions: The UN and the World today

                                              Hoover and Roosevelt: Liberal or Conservative? (1984 DBQ)

 

3/9-3/16                                            SPRING BREAK!

 

 

3/16-3/23          Ch.37 The Eisenhower Era,1952-1960

•Election of Dwight D. Eisenhower

•Desegregating the South

•The Menace of McCarthyism

•Election of John F.Kennedy, 1960

 

                                             PowerPoint (hand-out): The “Red Scare” and JFK

                                             Discussion Questions

  

3/23-3/30           Ch.38 The Stormy Sixties,1960-1968

•Kennedy and the Cold War

•Kennedy Assassination - November 22, 1963

•The Cuban Missile Crisis

•Lyndon B. Johnson and the "Great Society"

•The Struggle for Civil Rights

•The Election of Richard Nixon, 1968

 

PowerPoint (lecture): The Civil Rights Movement

Video: Eye on the Prize

Mutiple Choice Test (Chapters 34-37) April 11th

Video: Thirteen Days

 

3/30-4/6           Ch.39 The Stalemated Seventies, 1968-1980

•Nixon and the Vietnam War      

•The Watergate Scandal

•New Policies -- China and the Soviets

•Desegregation and Affirmative Action

•Israelis, Arabs, Oil                   

•The election of Jimmy Carter, 1976

 

Discussion Questions: Vietnam War, Watergate, and Nixon

 

 

3/30-4/6           Ch.40 The Resurgence of Conservatism, 1980-1992

•The New Right and Reagan’s Election

•The Election of George Bush, 1988

•The Iran Scandal                          •The End of the Cold War

•Conservatism and the courts      •The Persian Gulf War, 1991

DBQ - TBA

     

4/6-4/13           Ch. 41 America Confronts the Post-Cold War Era, 1992-2004                               

                                               •The Election of Bill Clinton, 1992

                                               •Post-Cold War Foreign Policy

                                               •The Clinton Impeachment Trial

                                               •George W. Bush as President

                                               •The Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001

 

DQ's

 

4/13-4/20           Ch.42 The American People Face a New Century

•The High-tech Economy            •The Feminist Revolution

•Immigration and Assimilation     •A Multi-Cultural Society

 

Discussion Questions (chapter 41-42)

DBQ - 4/28/08

Multiple Choice Test (Chapters

Video: The Presidents

Begin review for exam

 

 

May 5/6th                   FINAL -- DBQ

Multiple Choice Test (chapters 1-42)

 

May 9th                     AP U.S. History -- State Exam

 

May 29-June 6          Conspiracy Theory Project Presentations